| 单词 | sanitize |
| 释义 | sanitize (once / 36035 pages) v To sanitize something is to make it extremely clean. After watching you play with your slobbery dog, your fastidious friend might insist that you sanitize your hands before sitting down to dinner. When you clean or sterilize something, particularly for reasons of good health (like not spreading germs), you can say that you sanitize it. You can also use this verb in a figurative way, whenever you "clean" something: "She doesn't want to risk alienating her audience, so she sanitizes her speech to remove anything that might offend them." The Latin root is sanitas, "health." WORD FAMILYsanitize: sanitization, sanitized, sanitizes, sanitizing USAGE EXAMPLESCritics say proponents deliberately minimize the dangers, starting with their use of sanitizing nomenclature like “ECT.” Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Critics say proponents deliberately minimize the dangers — starting with their use of sanitizing nomenclature like “ECT.” New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) In the historically accurate version Dava Sobel tells in her careful and detailed style, the past is neither sanitized nor embellished. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1v make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing Syn|Hyper hygienise, hygienize, sanitise clean, make clean make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from 2v make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features sanitize a document before releasing it to the press sanitize history sanitize the language in a book Syn|Hyper sanitise alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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